Towering Qinling.

Dividing the north and south.

The hot and humid weather in the Bashu area gave birth to the splendid civilization of Bashu, but it also made the children of Guanzhong, who were accustomed to cool and strong winds, very uncomfortable.

Sickness comes like a mountain.

The continuous conquest and the long journey were quite demanding on people's bodies and spirits, and before Shu County was captured, the Qin army was motivated by a goal, and every soldier's heart was burning like a fire, which made them ignore the physical fatigue and discomfort.

When the victory was triumphant, the Qin army generals who had relaxed their mood suddenly lost their vigilance, and the fatigue and illness of the body hit wave after wave, making these fearless soldiers on the battlefield fall.

In fact, as early as May when entering Ba County, there were generals in the Qin army who fell ill, at the beginning there were only one or two soldiers in each battalion who were not in good physical condition, and the medical officer thought it was an ordinary minor illness, and he didn't take it too seriously, and simply boiled some herbs to deal with the matter, as for the effect, it can't be said that it was completely useless, but there were a few strong people who survived.

The medical officers in the Qin army could only treat some ordinary external injuries simply, and there was little they could do about this sudden large-scale plague.

One after the other.

One team after another.

Persisted until the end of June and the beginning of July, when the Qin army returned from the south and the north, the number of sick and sick soldiers in the army suddenly increased almost overnight. By the time Li Yuan fell in early July, Li Zhongxiang and several other generals had already been carried by soldiers and marched for several days.

"Shenhou, this is the miasma of the south, there is no way to save it, it is better to leave the soldiers who are seriously ill and unable to march first, and the army will be drawn first, otherwise, the whole army will be wiped out." The medical officer was helpless, because he knew some alchemists' Dan prescriptions, and Peng Sheng, who was temporarily designated by Li Yuan to be in charge of medical officer affairs, cried with a sad face. ran to Li Yuan to report.

"Miasma, can you be sure?" Li Yuan looked solemn, stared at Peng Sheng and asked. On a hot day in July, Li Yuan was wearing several layers of thick armor, and he was also tortured by malaria, and his body was hot and cold, which made him a little unbearable.

Abandoning the friends who fought side by side, and then stealing his own life, if Li Yuan did not have the mind of a modern person, he might have made such a ruthless choice.

And now. He who has received a modern military education of "not abandoning, not giving up", he will not be able to make the decision to abandon his pawn no matter what, as long as there is still a glimmer of hope, he must go all out, this is the creed that Li Yuan adheres to, and it is also the driving force for him to be deeply loved by the generals of the Qin army.

"Shenhou, it's true, although his subordinates can't do medical skills. But in the past, I had also seen the power of the miasma with the ancestors, and if it was too late to be treated, I was afraid that the gods would also! Peng Sheng looked depressed. Just now, he was in a hurry. I forgot that Li Yuan was also a member of the stroke, and it was unwise to propose that the stroke should be left to fend for itself.

"Thou shalt do thy best to heal the seriously ill soldiers, and thou shalt not take care of the rest, as for the miasma attack. Don't talk about it to others, if you let Ben Hou hear, be careful with your life. Li Yuan's face sank. Drink the order. Peng Sheng is a newly attached person, and it remains to be considered in terms of loyalty, in the case that no one is available, Li Yuan can only be retained while beating, if Peng Sheng is acquainted, he should be able to hear Li Yuan's warning.

"The subordinates understand, please rest assured." Peng Sheng's expression was dazed, and he responded with surprise and joy.

Peng Sheng was surprised that Li Yuan still didn't take his suggestion, which made Peng Sheng feel a lot of pressure, and as more and more sick soldiers died, the marching speed of the Qin army would be greatly reduced, and in this case, it was almost impossible to get out of Chencang Road.

The good thing is that Li Yuan still has the intention of reusing him, and finally surrendered to the Qin State, and was appreciated by the young Shenwu Marquis, and was able to follow him to Guanzhong, which was the first among the officials of Shu County, and Peng Sheng didn't want to give up like this.

"Wait a minute, you will quickly send my order: the whole army shall immediately check the soldiers who are cold, headache, and fever, and move to another camp; Cold water that has not been boiled is not allowed to be drunk, and the clothes, weapons and other items that the soldiers touch every day must be soaked in boiling water before they can be used. Li Yuan thought for a while, stopped Peng Sheng and ordered.

Miasma is a kind of falciparum malaria in later generations, and isolation is the most important one in terms of treatment.

"My subordinates will do it." Peng Sheng's face was overjoyed and he replied urgently. These precautionary measures proposed by Li Yuan gave Peng Sheng a glimmer of hope to get out of the jungle.

The outbreak of falciparum malaria was far more powerful than Li Yuan had imagined, and the great plague that spread throughout the Qin expeditionary force showed its power and horror from the beginning.

Peng Sheng's reminder made Li Yuan wake up that this was not an ordinary disease at all, but a plague. If the spread of malaria could not be prevented, the invincible Qin army on the battlefield was very likely to disappear into the Qinling Mountains because of malaria.

The hot and humid weather is the cause of the poisonous miasma, this kind of falciparum malaria transmitted by mosquitoes is extremely terrible, not to mention that it was in the Qin period, that is, in later generations, but it is a disease that makes people smell and change color.

From frustration to the old way.

The Qin army was advancing step by step with difficulty. After being isolated, the Qin army's march slowed down repeatedly, and when the army finally reached the northern foot of the Qin Mountains, it finally came to a standstill.

Five thousand generals, infected with the plague reached one-third, starting from the Battle of Tiger Prison Pass, Li Yuan led the Qin army to conquer the east and west, from the Didao grassland in the north to the Bashan Shushui in the south, they defeated one enemy after another that threatened Great Qin, but they could not defeat the enemy who threatened their body.

Gojogahara.

This place was famous in the Three Kingdoms because Shu Xiang Zhuge Liang died of illness here, and the name in Qin was Pituopo, and later it was named because of Hu Hai's sentence "Autumn Wind Wuzhang Plain".

The army marched to Wuzhang Plain, almost unable to move half a step, along the way, the Qin soldiers who died of illness were six or seven hundred, among them, there were those who were in poor health, and they died after only a few days.

Li Yuan had been sick for five days, and compared to a few days ago, he was still able to talk to Peng Sheng, and now he was close to a coma, and this news enveloped the Qin army in an aura of death.

In this era of ignorance, Li Yuan's battlefield deeds made the soldiers in the army think that their Shenwu Hou was omnipotent, and nothing could knock him down, and now, when the disease hit, even the Shenwu Hou had no choice.

July 15th.

The eldest princess Ying Yushu and the long history Chen Ping finally arrived at Wuzhang Plain, and what they saw was not the festive scene of the Qin army's triumphant expedition back, but a gloomy and misty scene.

Seeing this scene, the medical officers who came with them also gasped, such a large-scale plague outbreak is a great test of their medical skills, if they can't show their skills this time, it is estimated that the medical officer's bowl of rice will be over.

"Mr. Gongsun, Li Hou has passed out for five days, what is the situation?" Ying Yu sobbed and said with tears, she was thinking that she would serve in front of Li Yuan but was stopped by Gongsun Guang, the chief medical officer who accompanied her, and she could only take a look from a distance, but she couldn't see what Li Yuan looked like.

"Eldest princess and rest assured, Li Hou's condition is indeed dangerous, but there is still hope for treatment-." Gongsun Guang looked solemn and said word by word.

"Then there's Mr. Law. When Li Hou is saved, my Daqin will definitely reward him heavily, and write a book for Mr., so that Mr.'s skills can be passed on for thousands of years. Ying Yushu said.

"The eldest princess has a heart." Gongsun Guang said movingly.

Gongsun Guang went west to the Qin State this time, on the one hand, to find a country that could provide him to study medical skills, and on the other hand, he also wanted to compete with another big family in Qidi, Gongcheng Yangqing, to see who was more skilled in medicine.

For a doctor, treating patients is the most important, and writing books to inherit medical skills is the most touching to their hearts, Gongsun Guang does not seek to bow down for tens of millions of people like the Yellow Emperor, but also hopes to be like the divine doctor Bian Que, the medical skills and medical ethics will be passed on to future generations from generation to generation, so that his name Gongsun Guang is praised by doctors.

Under his command, a team of Qin soldiers, under the leadership of their respective medical officers, cleaned the places of the sick and used herbs such as realgar and atractylodes to torture and give them to the sick people.

Under the careful treatment of Gongsun Guang, Li Yuan, who had always been in good health, finally picked up a life from the ghost gate after being in a coma for seven days. However, his body is still very weak, and it will take a period of time to fully recover.

As for the other patients, most of them have improved. The soldiers who unfortunately died of the epidemic were instructed by Gongsun Guang to bury their ashes in a remote place after the body and clothes were burned.

After treating Li Yuan's army, Gongsun Guang did not stop, and went all the way south non-stop to Wang Shang, Feng Xuan and other generals stationed in Hanzhong, Ba, and Shu counties to inspect whether the plague had spread among their army.

By the beginning of August.

Li Yuan, who was finally basically recovered, decided to turn back to Xianyang, and the generals who returned with him were sharply reduced from more than 5,000 to only about 2,000.

The power of the plague caused huge losses to the elite of this Qin army, and Li Yuan also returned to Xianyang in a carriage for the first time since the army.

After capturing Hanzhong, connecting Bashu, and connecting the north and south of the Qin Mountains, the Qin State finally had a geographical advantage against the Kwantung princes after paying a huge price.

At the same time as Li Yuan unified the western region, after occupying Nanjun, Liu Bang, the king of Han, who was eager to get rid of the predicament of being constantly pursued by the Qin army, also launched a southern expedition. (To be continued......)

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